"After the conversion process is complete, the game will take less space on your hard disk than before" -SteamPipe Support Page This is so misleading, before I converted my games I've checked how much space they take up, and checked how much space they take up after. This is how it went- CSS before steampipe: 2.9 GB, CSS after steampipe: 9.8 GB, DOD:S before steampipe: 380 MB, DOD:S after steampipe: 4.11 GB. Seriously? I might as well unistall it and free up my HDD space for something more important.

I have no knowledge if the GCF to VPK switch is any better, but this is really annoying to find the games taking up more space than it used to be, I do find myself joining games slightly faster and customization more organized.

Did you read your own thread? Before Steampiepe not all files related to the game was storede in the same directory as the game. They use GCF files, and they tended to be very large files. People in this thread asking you if you took those into account and you just ignore them.